Appendix C. Milestones
C.1 New Faculty and Staff
C.3 Chair Appointments
Dr. Raymond C. Ashoori joined RLE's QuantumEffect Devices Group as Assistant Professor of
Physics in January 1993.
Dr. Thomas F. Weiss, Professor of Electrical and
Bioengineering and faculty member in RLE's
Auditory Physiology Group, was appointed Thomas
and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in May 1992.
Mr. Joseph F. Connolly was appointed
Administrative Officer in October 1992.
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Dr. David L. Zeltzer joined RLE's Sensory Communication Group in January 1993.
C.4 Awards and Honors
C.2 Promotions
Dr. Sylvia T. Ceyer, Professor of Chemistry and
faculty member in RLE's Surfaces and Interfaces
Group, was elected fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 1992.
Dr. Srinivas Devadas was promoted to Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science in July 1992. Dr. Devadas is a member of
RLE's Circuits and Systems Group.
Mr. Qizheng Gu was appointed Research Scientist
in RLE's Center for Electromagnetic Theory and
Applications in February 1992.
Dr. Srinivas Devadas, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a
member of RLE's Circuits and Systems Group,
received a 1992 Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation.
Dr. John J. Guinan, Jr., Principal Research Scientist in RLE's Auditory Physiology Group, was
appointed Associate Director at the Massachusetts
Eye and Ear Infirmary in January 1992.
Dr. Daniel Kleppner, Associate Director of RLE
and Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, was elected
fellow of the Optical Society of America in May
1992. Professor Kleppner is also a faculty member
in RLE's Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Group.
Dr. Leslie A. Kolodziejski, Karl Van Tassel Career
Development Assistant Professor, was promoted to
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science in July 1992.
Dr. Joseph S. Perkell, Senior Research Scientist
in the Speech Communication Group, was elected
fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in May
1992.
Dr. Melanie L. Matthies was promoted to
Research Scientist in RLE's Speech Communication Group in May 1992.
Dr. William F. Schreiber, Professor Emeritus of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was
awarded the 1992 Journal Award of the Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
This was the fourth time Professor Schreiber
received the Journal Award.
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, President Emeritus of MIT
and Director Emeritus of RLE, received the National
Science Board's Vannevar Bush Bush Award in
April 1992.
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